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**WW** Cosmo Cricket - Matilda - 6 winners!!

Well I am starting off this winners post - by jumping up and down with excitement because the All Blacks won the 2011 Rugby World cup!!   I think quite possibly it was one of the best games I have ever watched.   Adding here - I am now at the store - on just 3 hours sleep!!

Talk about down to the wire - we won 8-7 - the whole game was nailbiting - in fact I could hardly bear to watch when the score was SOOO close - I am sure I needed my heart restarted several times.   

Okay - I could go on and on - but I will put you out of your misery and announce the 6 winners of the 6x6 paper pads!

 

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

11
12
1
16
5
17

Timestamp: 2011-10-23 16:53:55 UTC

 

and the Scrapgrlz World Cup winners are......

 

Satyn

Jingle

Sallie

Ngan

Margie

Nadine

 

Get thee to your computers girls - and send me your snail mail address so I can get these shipped out to you in time for Halloween!

 

And just because I can - another photo of the All Blacks -in full force doing the Haka before the game. 

  The French really stood up to the challenge, formed an arrow shape and then walked right up to them! OOOH

Resolutions !!!!!!!

We all make them.

We all break them.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em; Know when to walk away, know when to run.. WHAT?? get outta here Kenny.. wrong song.. and I don't even like country music.   Anyway... as I was saying.   This year I have lots of things I want to do/change/be/start/end etc.    So instead of standing there at midnight making rash promises - I have spent the last couple of days making a board.

So I present - My 2011 Resolution Board

I took a large piece of tin (left over from an old project) and punched a couple of holes (good ole cropadile) and hung it by wire.   Because the edges of the tin were a tad sharp, I wrapped the edges with 7gypsies tape.   Over each hole where the wire came through I put two buttons as added stability to stop the wire pulling back - and as luck would have it I had two buttons with the #1 on them so it is for Year 11!     Then I grabbed some el cheapo wooden pegs and glued magnet strips on to the back of each one (which came with a message board and will never be used).   Then I painted the pegs in different colours.

Peridot - Daily

Periwinkle - Weekly

Aquamarine - Monthly

Red - Year

Then I set to, and made the actual resolutions for each peg.   Some are just visuals, some are words, some are a combination.   Scrappy items came in handy here!   The whole time I was making it - I was thinking about all the things that I wanted - and even before it was finished - I had/have already started to implement some of them.    This is hanging in my little office area so everytime I walk in and out I see it.  

So here is a close up of the different areas.

DAILY

These are things I want to change on a daily basis. 

I found some fun images in a recent magazine and some I had on my computer.

No that is not moisturiser on the moisturise label but liquid pearls - looks realistic though!!   

My personal fave - Stop letting it - with the visual of  time slipping through my fingers

In making the actual board - I already started on the save money part by using items I already had.   You might laugh at the "dressed before 9am" - but let me tell you - working for yourself from home, it is so easy some days to get up and start working - and suddenly it is nearly lunchtime and you are still in your jimjams!!   Enough I say!

 

WEEKLY

The 2lbs down goal - that is my minimum - I think I can do better - but that is my weekly aim.  

Some of the exercise goals will change to daily. 

The SWIM is swimming don't you think?

Fix Something refers to the house.   We all have little jobs that need a bit of DIY - that always seem to get put off - no more!!

 

MONTHLY

My poor old Vespa has not been ridden in yonks.  With the way petrol is flying up - I need to get back in the saddle! 

1 layout a month might seem paltry - but as I have done NONE layouts a month over the past year, well!!   It seems as though since I started *working* in the scrap industry my own scrapping has become a thing of the past!

Something for me - a little AB FAB dahling - or a little putting me first.  Might be as a simple as a pedicure, or lunch with friends, or as involved as a weekend away.

I am changing my albums up - pulled the layouts all out over a year ago - they still sit... sadly waiting for a new home.

DATES!!   I want some!!   Not just a night at the movies either!

 

YEAR

These are goals I want reached in 2011.

The bath - that actual bath (and tap) is sitting in our garage - in a box - waiting to be installed. 

We bought it last year along with a new basin unit.  

We want to totally redo the main bathroom which is 70's kitsch small YUK horrible nasty.  

It is going to be a big job - everything ripped out - along with an adjoining wall (cupboard) to make the room bigger, and a skylight pushed through - as it is an interior room and dark as a coalmine with the lights off.   But this year it is HAPPENING!

I love the font for learning something new - and I know what it is I want to learn - and no I am not fessing up.      The other image is very self explanatory and I won't be commenting!

 

So there you have it - the Board.   I am thinking this should be the topic for the layout I do for this month!    I have a few other items to go on the board - need more pegs - and over the year some of the items will change their status to daily, weekly, monthly.    Some will be bumped up (exercise) and some will be bumped down (dig photos) as situations change or get completed.

**Wednesday Winners**.... Give a Little Bit... and Get a LOT

I was sitting here this morning ... very early in fact... planning to do this post so it was there ready for you all to comment and be in the run to win this week's prize.   The only thing stopping me, was trying to decide what this week's prize was going to be!!    I had lots of ideas... but could not pin down just one.   Then all was revealed in an email I received.

I was talking with Barb on the phone yesterday, who is the Mum of Alysson, my daughter Cait's first friend here when we moved to the USA in 1997.   They met in 2nd grade and have been friends ever since.  

Anyway, Alysson's older sister Cortney is training for a marathon and is doing it with Team in Training for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society.  She is trying to raise $6,000 and is a shy of her goal.  She is just about halfway there.  Barb wondered if there was anything I could do.   Of course there is!  So I emailed Cortney so she had my contact stuff.. and she emailed me back a few minutes ago.

She says on her page:

I was honored to meet one of many honorees, who now is in remission. At the end of our conversation, he asked for one thing of me...to jump up and down at the finish line. Due to his past treatments and surgery, he will no longer be able to jump. Holding back tears I agreed. In October there will not only be a smile, but there will be one step (or thousands in my case) closer to finding a cure. I am passionate about training and most importantly to finding a cure. I would like your help in raising $6000.

 

I was already planning another raffle for the retreat next week - I do them now and then - and give the funds raised to a charity.  This time - the funds will go to Cortney's fundraising effort and hopefully will add a chunk O change.  

Then I had another idea - this week's Wednesday Winner.   

I am going to giveaway a prize - but in return I ask (and I don't ask very often) that you donate whatever you can to Cortney's fundraising effort and let's help her try and reach her goal before the cut off date of September 27.   Please also send the blog link to all your scrappy friends so we really get a huge response this week.   If it gets big enough then I will throw in a second prize as well!

So here is the link for you to donate:

Cortney's Donation Page

In your comment - let me know you did it - and yes I will be checking - only those who donated are VALID entries this week into the prize drawing.   So make sure you put your name on the donation page - even if it is just first name and initial.   But what do you get???    Well it is worth it... you are not getting nothing for your something !!!

This is a biggie!!   

The Cropper Hopper Cubez Collection

worth $80!!

Organize and store scrapbooking, home office, crafting supplies and more using the Cubez by Cropper Hopper.

The dividers included customize Cubez horizontally or vertically. Easy to assemble using heavy-duty connectors.

No tools required!

Contents include:

12 panels with 2 holes, 6 panels without holes

18 connectors, 4 butterfly clips

8 shelf clips, 24 hole plugs

1 jumbo drawer tote, 1 large drawer tote, 2 small drawer totes

Inside cube dimensions are 13.7" x 13.7" x 13.7"

Assembled dimensions are 29"x 29" x 14.5"

Worth giving up some $$$ and cents for??   I think so!  

Plus you know you are helping out a worthwhile cause.

Zee RulZ

Every Wednesday for eternity (or until I retire, run away from home, go broke or kick the bouquet) there will be a contest on the blog with prizes for you.   

Each week you have to comment on the Wednesday Winners blogpost to be in the draw – and the weiner whiner winner will be drawn on Saturdays.

You have 2 weeks to claim your prize. 

The winner has to send me a photo of something they create with their WINNINGS so I can post it on the blog for all to see and be INSPIRED by.

Ok are we all clear ???

This is a great prize this week - so tell all your friends - for the feel good prize this week - so get donating and commenting!!

**WW**.... HERE I MAR !!!

 as my youngest, Cait always used to say!    Along with   - I MAR so -  or   - I MAR not -  ...when she was being particularly stroppy!  

Funnily enough we all still use those sayings!  I had planned to post this a little earlier - but I fluffed around, then went back to bed for a bit, and fell asleep - got up again.. in a grumpy *LOL* - then was sitting here in my nightie when I suddenly remembered Ann was coming over at 10am to pick up her Basic Grey Jovial Christmas card kit order ARRGGGHH.   So it was a race to get dressed before she got here.

 
Speaking of Basic Grey - oooh the new Jovial, Wander and Pyrus Card kits are YUMMO along with 2011 calendar.    They all arrived yesterday and as usual do not disappoint.  

They are up in the store now - and already starting to disappear, so get those orders in if you want some!     I am definitely making up that scooter card in the Wander card kit!!... and sending to all my Vespa owning friends!

Had a lovely chat with Annie over some good expresso and now it is back to work for me.   First order of business of course - finding out who is this week's Wednesday Winner!   So who is going to be STUCK LIKE GLUE I wonder.    I have run the R.I.G. and it has spun up

 

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

5	

Timestamp: 2010-09-11 18:50:36 UTC

And #5 is .... JOEY!!! who said

 

Joey said...

We are keeping a good thought for your family and friends - hopefully the aftershocks will subside soon. Love seeing the insides of your computer.

Wow! How did you know that I was in need of glue! What a great idea and a way for us to try new things. Always looking for adhesive for ribbon and other embellies.

Well done Miss J!   You will be needing lots of glue at the scrapbook retreat so this is very well timed indeed!  

I will give you your prize at next week's crop.

Speaking of retreats, I will be busy this week getting the last of the things ready for it, and also making up two samples of the class I am meant to be teaching.  

I just hope people still want to do it - as the class kit shipment came in 4 weeks later than planned and I did not dare send out an email about it in case it did not get here at all.

Tomorrow and Monday I am attending a Tools & Technique event.   Should be fun with demonstrations, make n takes, testing the latest tools, learning techniques and making samples.  I hope to come away with some new classes and ideas.   I am taking my laptop up there, and hope to get a bit of work done at night - famous last words!  I might get to post something via my iPhone to Typepad.   Although the last time I tried to do that - the App failed miserably!

However, as today is mean to be hot and sunny - I am going to do what I *have* to do workwise, and hope to spend time in the pool and have something yummy for dinner tonight cooked by my husband.

Tonight we will be watching the last rugby game of the Tri-Nations series - it was meant to be on live this morning at 3am, and we were taping it, and then were having a breakfast meetup with some other kiwis to watch it - but stupid Fox Soccer Plus channel changed it for some reason to a delayed game tonight at 7.30pm - so we have to hide out from any news of the score!!

so who is going to PARIS???

I mean I can't think of a better reason to go, than you won scrapbooking items for a trip like that - right??   It makes perfect sense - you have the scrappy items - you need to go to take photos so you can USE the items ;-)

I had a VERY busy and VERY long day yesterday playing nurse for Mike.   We were up at 5.30am to get him to the hospital.   We were back home by 9.30 - a little later than planned - as he did not take to the general that well.   A Whiter Shade of Pale comes to mind - cos that was the way he looked when I brought him home.   He slept on and off for most of the day - and finally got up around 4.30ish.   Had some light food which stayed down YAYY - and plenty to drink.   I am pleased to say he is doing much better - and came through everything fine - although is a pretty stiff, and swollen today.  I also had to get the youngest over to college at lunchtime, and then pick her up at 10.30pm last night when classes finished.    Then with the rugby on at 12.30 am - I did not get to bed until 3am!!   I am certainly running on empty today.  

But I digress - lets get on with choosing the winner of the goodies!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

21	

Timestamp: 2010-07-17 19:10:04 UTC

and number 21 is........

  

NEVIS

Nevis said...

Love the stuff...and the theme is great!

July 15, 2010 at 08:41 PM

Nevis click the little pic on the left there to send me your address so I can get these goodies out to you - so you can start booking those tickets for Paris.

Me.... well I will be playing Nurse Nightingale for most of the weekend - so I might even manage to get some crafting and scrapping in - yes I know you are shocked - I might shock you more and post things I have actually made with my own two little hands!!  

One thing I will be doing is sending away the goodies for a swap I am in.  It was fun - it was a turquoise swap.    I was surprised though - at how different that shade is depending on what you looked at.  After a while I was feeling confused as to just what the colour TURQUOISE was meant to be like!    I am pretty sure my partner in this does not read my blog, so here is a peek at what I am sending.    I just have to decorate a little birdhouse I want to send her as well - and then it is all ready to go!

oh yeah... and we WHOMPED the Springboks again 31-17 - will be interesting next week to see how the Springboks match up against the Wallabies!

Rugby - TriNations Series ARE YOU READY???

Hell Yes!!   and I think it is an easy guess who I am supporting!!  

Even better - after a year of mucking about with Setanta Sports disappearing off TV and Fox Soccer coming in - but with no Southern Hemisphere rugby - they have finally sorted their shit out come to a gentlemen's agreement and it is LIVE LIVE LIVE!!

12.30am tonight (_{tomorrow morning??}) we will be singing the NZ Anthem and doing the Haka and hopefully will have a bunch of other kiwi's from the meetup group joining us to watch the game live

Rugby and Knighthoods

not normally two words you see together in a blog header!    Actually you do - because a NZ rugby player was knighted over the weekend in the Queens Birthday Honours List.   But I digress.

The Knighthood - Arise Sir Hugh.

I was absolutely thrilled to read that my dear friend Hugh Williams was also knighted in the weekend for services as a judge.   I worked off and on for Sir Hugh for many years back in New Zealand.   We first met in 1992 during the Casino hearings in Auckland.   He was the Queen's Counsel for the group that I was working for that was bidding to win the first casino license for New Zealand.

We met again during the infamous Winebox Inquiry in New Zealand when I was contracting to the Bank of New Zealand.  Finally just before moving to the US, I then worked in a part time capacity for him at his chambers with his own QC practice.   Not long after I moved to the US - he went on to become a High Court Judge.   

Rugby!!

We enjoyed a wonderful day on Saturday with Mike coming out of retirement to play rugby for the San Jose Marauders.     It is 18 years since he last played, and I was a tad worried about injuries but he survived pretty much unscathed.

Two games were played - and they won both, by quite a margin.  Mike played at both lock and tighthead prop - positions he is well used to.   The team is made up of quite a few rugby playing countries - another kiwi in there that's him on the left in the front row, English, Scots, French, and Americans who love the game.

 

Although - bloody hell - playing in 30deg (celsius) is not for the faint of heart.    I think it is much easier on the players and spectators when the games are played in the winter months.

Sweat Anyone??

All of those who think Mike is a nice easy going guy - take a look at him in this pic going in for the kill, and the green mouthguard - which has to go, because it kept coming out - it was a shocking fit, even after molding it!!

All in all a wonderful day - and they won the Talisker Shield again.   I look forward to more days on the sidelines, hopefully when it is not SO hot.   

I think one of the best parts of the day - was the aftermatch at Lily Mac's and the VERY cold BEER or two or three I had.

go SHARKS - WE BLEED TEAL!!

It is the first game of the 4 game playoff for the Stanley Cup today at midday and for once the Sharks have made it through.   

Hannah, Mike and Cait are going,
Hannah who is a HUGE fan - is beyond excited.   

I don't even want to say what the tickets cost *shudder* - and this is
for tickets in the nosebleeds!!

I would love them to win - it would just be fantastic with
the 3 of them there, watching the game.   

 

what a wonderful day on the water

with Mike redeeeming his Fathers Day gift... more about that tomorrow

OUCH!

57 hours

970 miles

2 tanks of petrol

8 hours sleep

Thousands of kiwi supporters - who understood what we were saying - and we didn't have to slow down

xx? beers at the park

2 real kiwi meat pies (although they didn't have Watties sauce - shame)

1 night in a New Zealand pub

A real kiwi burger - with an egg AND beetroot

77 oz of SPEIGHTS!

44 games of rugby - PRICELESS

I think that was just about the best weekend EVER!!